Time Warner had been administering its own complementary health-insurance plans for retirees but now will pay those former employees a stipend so they can shop for insurance on their own. Those retirees then would go to private exchanges — not the public exchanges being set up under President Obama’s health-care overhaul — if they sought supplemental coverage to Medicare and take it from there.

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